[mapserver-dev] charset in content-type http header

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Thu Apr 17 13:23:55 EDT 2008


Yup, it won't get looked at without one... ;-)

Steve

>>> On 4/17/2008 at 5:58 AM, in message
<6a6cb8081c7408a8960fc6e7fee1dc6f at pop02.backbone.tiscomhosting.nl>,
<bartvde at osgis.nl> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> currently Mapserver (WFS e.g.) only uses the encoding METADATA in the XML
> header of the XML document.
> 
> For AJAX applications in Internet Explorer, this is often not enough to get
> the XML to be parsed, if it contains specials characters.
> 
> Instead, it should also be added to the Content-Type http header charset,
> e.g.:
> 
> Content-Type: text/xml;charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Should I open up a bug for this enhancement?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
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